Provided through a Colorado Grain Chain grant, Pueblo Seed and Food Co. in Cortez received $5,000 to fund new packaging for its whole-grain cookies.
The artisan bakehouse is shifting from tin containers to cardboard boxes to help lower prices. Co-founder Nanna Meyer said it will make the products more accessible to the larger public while keeping packaging “coherent and beautiful.”
Owners Meyer and Dan Hobbs use yields from their farm in McElmo Canyon for their bakehouse at 25 N. Beech St.
The business focuses on conservation and regenerative farming. They sell a variety of products made from heritage grains they grow, as well as legumes, mixed vegetables, garlic, chile peppers and pollinated seeds. The bakehouse is open Fridays, noon to 6 p.m., and Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., serving baked goods and breads, coffee and tea, as well as various meals.
“The new cardboard boxes will cover 7-8 cookie types and yet keep the brand we created coherent and beautiful, even though we will be missing our tins,” Meyer said in a news release.
“Our commitment to regionally grown, organic whole-grain products and the expansion of acreage of organic grain production with other growers in the Four Corners are both strengthened by this grant,” Meyer said in the release.
Pueblo Seed & Food is one of six Colorado businesses awarded funds through Colorado Grain Chain’s microgrant program, which supports projects that bring locally grown, organic grain products from farm to table. The other businesses and nonprofits awarded include Community Agriculture Alliance, High Desert Bagels in Durango, Our Community Eats, Pastificio Boulder and the Rye Resurgence Project.
The grant program is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Walton Family Foundation.
